[mpyne]

And yet not as close as they used to be. It's not coincidental that the U.S. DoD has just recently signed agreements with India on exporting carrier technology and know-how, among other defense cooperation projects.

Russia has supplied many of India's defense needs for some time, but that's less from any special Indian affinity for Russia than because the U.S. had kind of forced their hand decades ago by aligning with Pakistan, which wasn't helped when the U.S. later sanctioned India in 1998 due to its nuclear weapons testing.

[dogma1138]

Russia, The US, India, Pakistan, and China have a full on orgy of various alliances against various combinations of counter alliances, that whole region if completely fucked up everyone is sleeping with everyone while trying to fuck everyone else, now days it's getting even more complicated with the EU trying to get a foothold in the Caspian sea to bypass Russia for better energy independence which kinda messed up the wired but some what stable status quo that region had.

If people think that the middle east is complicated they really have no idea whats going on just north east of it :P

[known]

Americans can PRINT dollars to buy OPEC Oil;

Others have to EARN dollars to buy OPEC Oil;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrocurrency#Currencies_used_...